A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest-edited by New York Times best-selling author and groundbreaking physicist Michio Kaku.
2020 the best American science and nature writing Science and nature
Contents:
A journey into the animal mind (from The Atlantic) / Ross Andersen Sleep no more (from Wired) / Kelly Clancy What remains (from The California Sunday magazine) / Daniel Duane With a simple twist, a "magic" material is now the big thing in physics (from Quanta Magazine) / David H. Freedman The eighth continent (from The New Yorker) / Rivka Galchen The tumultuous history of a mysterious brain signal that questioned free will (from The Atlantic) / Bahar Gholipour Younger longer (from The New Yorker) / Adam Gopnik Right under our noses (from Wired) / Sara Harrison I, language robot (from Los Angeles Review of Books) / Patrick House Beauty of the beasts (from The New York Times Magazine) / Ferris Jabr Ghosts of the future (from The Washington Post ) / Sarah Kaplan Intelligent ways to search for extraterrestrials (from The New Yorker) / Adam Mann Total eclipse (from Aeon) / Deanna Csomo McCool "We have fire everywhere" (from The New York Times Magazine) / Jon Mooallem Vaccines reimagined (from Scientific American) / Melinda Wenner Moyer New blood (from The New Yorker) / Siddhartha Mukherjee The day the dinosaurs died (from The New Yorker) / Douglas Preston The final five percent (from Longreads) / Tim Requarth The next word (from The New Yorker) / John Seabrook Troubled treasure (from Science Magazine) / Joshua Sokol The hidden heroines of chaos (from Quanta Magazine) / Joshua Sokol The hunt for planet nine (from Longreads) / Shannon Stirone A different kind of theory of everything (from The New Yorker) / Natalie Wolchover The brain that remade itself (from OneZero) / Andrew Zaleski
